Adam Savage's Favorite High-Power LED Flashlight!
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- For today's Show and Tell, Adam brings out an incredible LED flashlight that was gifted to him years ago by some friends at Google. This ridiculous flashlight combines four high power LEDs with custom reflectors for a combined 3000 lumens of brightness that can easily light up an entire room. And Adam's favorite part about it may be its development codename. Now you know why Adam had to build a lithium-ion battery gang charger!
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It appears to have been a gift to Googlers budgetlightforum.com/node/39377
I have fleshlight that has 2000lumens and 12000lumens
@@loekessers Yup, it was the holiday gift within one of the engineering organizations. The people that worked on the design also worked on the designs for Google's datacenters and servers. So, they very much had the qualifications for circuit design.
Hi. This is Wayne Johnson, owner of Elektro Lumens. Today I received a flurry of emails of people requesting to buy this flashlight from me. First I want to say I have discontinued designing and building flashlights, altogether. So, if you happen to own one of these rare flashlights, hang on to it, maybe even hide it. I have had a number of people contact me, telling me it was stolen out of their vehicle, and they wanted to purchase another. I had to tell them I no longer make it, it is unavailable for purchase.
So my reply here is not so long, I am not going to go into the long story of this flashlight. Possibly some of the details I cannot reveal. But, Google contacted me about this flashlight I was building and selling at the time. They wanted to give one to all their employees as a gift. They helped me improve it, we spent much time improving the design, bringing the dimensions to be exact and precise. We co-produced the flashlight, and they were given to, according to all Google employees worldwide. I probably should not say the exact number, but it was thousands. I personally had a real blast doing this project. I got to go down to Google in Mountain View with my family, spend the day there, eat at some of the free restaurants at the Google facilities (more like a small city), see so much of their facility, absolutely fascinating. A rare opportunity and wonderful time I'll always treasure. I will not mention any persons names here, that I know and met there.
The LEDs used are Cree MCE LEDs, (now discontinued. Brightness is 3000 lumens. Amperage pull is 3 amps. Run time with 3000mAh batteries on high power should be 1 hour. If only 9 minutes is being achieved, most likely the batteries should be replaced.
Heat sink fins are not decorative, functional. These days heat sink fins are common, but at the time, they were not common. I was one of the first to power LEDs to such a level that serious considerations would be given to cooling. These days there are flashlights much brighter. The brightest flashlight I ever made was what I called Kong-21, which was 21,000 (most probably actual) lumens. Kong-21 was huge, and most assuredly at the time the brightest flashlight in the world. These days many make claims to high lumens, but, although I was not able to verify by testing in a lumens sphere, this was up there at or close to what I say. Kong-21. I used to post videos up on my Elektro Lumens TH-cam page, but now I make aluminum guitars, and all my videos are about the guitars I make. (Innovative Guitars).
The FireSword-V, as I call it, may become a rare collectors item. Maybe, someday it could be worth a fortune?? :)
Well, sorry, too long. I was going to be short. Oh well. I'm glad to answer questions, if any have them.
Wayne Johnson
Elektro Lumens
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"it never saw the light of day" - yeah, because it IS the light of day
....BRIGHTER then the light of day
YOU STOLE THE WORDS OUTTA MY HEAD!
Yep! I had just thought the same thing. 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠
They say that great minds think alike, so it appears that hundreds of great minds watched this video at the same time!
- because you use it at night.
You guys are idiots, its a phrase , look it up
Why is no one talking about how smooth Adam's hand movement was at 4:41?
He did teach Arnold the shotgun reload spin trick in Terminator 2..so yeah
So smooth indeed that I didn’t even notice it the first time :D
You are talking about it ...
@@chetchelios7614 wait! what?
@@jasonhenley1985 it's so crazy I know because I made it up..I'm insane baby
For ten years ago 3000 lumens is pretty impressive. These days it’s rather quaint. You get that in almost edc pocket size (for example the Olight Seeker 2)
You can get it in edc size easily with the emisar d4v2
@@aarong5996 True. Also the Imalent MS03 with an insane 13000 (yes 13 thousand) lumens in EDC format.
A single Epistar XHP110 at 72 watts will do like 7000 lumens now and you can drive that off a single 18650 (they make a 3v version)... Meaning there are now pocket lights that more than double the output of the Google light.
Watching this in 2021, this flashlight is really weird and not a good pick... There are so many smaller, better battery and more powerful flashlights now. ThruNite, Sofirn, Olight
Fuck lumens, candela’s where it’s at. My next flashlight has 200,000 candela.
How where they powering entire intersections in Manhattan if the batteries only last 9 minutes. They must have been changing batteries like crazy.
9 minutes at max brightness
William Overbeck Yeah, but you’re have to figure they were using it at max brightness if they were lighting up whole intersections with it.
@@joshhibbs_nola Sometimes a good story requires you to just enjoy it as it's told and not rip it apart for accuracy. It's the mental image of a NY intersection being lit up by one flashlight that evokes a sense of how bright the thing is. That's all it is.... a good story.
Expansion maybe?
Strap a bunch of extra batteries to it, weatherproof it and call it a day.
Something like that application calls for efficiency. Max brightness mode is not efficiency. Even if they used the internal battery it would last a helluvalot longer than 9 minutes on say... 50% power.
not powering, lighting up.
I was just watching all the videos that have been posted the past few weeks and this pops up! Great way to start my morning!
I wasn't at Google when these were handed out but I was fortunate enough to be able to trade for one shortly after I started. It's true that current lights have eclipsed it output-wise, but it was truly astonishing for its time, and it *still* is one of the most satisfying bits of machined product I own; this sucker is solid and heavy. (If I needed to use it as a self-defense weapon, I'm confident that if the light didn't blind an attacker, the light itself would be a genuinely wicked club.)
Um it’s still impressive now. If you ditch the overindulgent smartphone fad zombie NPC mentality. It’s not like god is updating the physics of earth every year to render all previous lights unusable. It was bright then and still is now.
@@kishascapeit's not at all impressive now, Google nut rider
That thing is obselete already. 😂
The flash at the end was something like that device from Men in Black. I think I forgot everything about this video. Gotta rewatch it again. And again. And again.
Pls someone remind me to look away at the end
look away at the end
There is a funny easteregg at the end lol
Still in the loop?
@@JamesAYT what loop? I am watching it for the first time
Adam: "You do not ever wanna do THIS to a person!"
*flashes torch straight camera*
People watching vid: "BLOODY HELL, MY EYES!!!!"
it's not nearly as bright as the real thing. unless you have a quite fancy display it's not gonna be nearly bright enough to cause concern.
@@BloodSprite-tan ThatsTheJoke.gif
@@danielkuehling2220 that's funny to you??????
@@BloodSprite-tan Yeah, you totally missed the joke.
@@danielkuehling2220 i understand a joke is being made but it's simply not funny at all, it's just stupid. it's like how light themes are blindingly bright. just stop it.
Thank you for shedding some light on this incredible flashlight!
We "see" what you did there!
In the past 4 years, flashlights have gotten insanely bright. The Firesword is 3000 lumens on high. Now there are flashlights that use Cree XHP70.2 chips. Up to 20 of them. About 100,000 lumens total, same as a 1000W metal halide stadium light
I believe that is talking about our MS18 from Imalent... I dropped Adam an email, hope he'd review it. cheers!
Now I don't know who you guys are & shipping to the US from the UK cannbe silly, but I will be checking out the MS18 & your other lights. I work as a private security & executive protection officer as well as vokunteering doing security for my church & search & rescue. Having a compact EDC Flashlight with a great throw that is bright enough to light up the darkest spaces as well as momentarily stun & blind a potential attacker/criminal is important, but I definitely have a need for a quality rechargeable when I need to inspect a large dark area whether it is a structure, parking lot when working or a field or forest when doing search & rescue work.
@@harvestblades Well The Imalent SR32 Just Released Today and That Is Now The World's Brightest Flashlight, With a Max Output of 120,000 Lumens.
Only 3,000 on high??
I'm very happy with my Imalent MS12 Mini. Bought it at the end of last year. Not 100,000 lumens on high. But the 65,000 lumens is no slouch! I can easily light up an entire football field by standing at one of end of it, and pointing the light at the other end. Does it have a pragmatic purpose? Heck no! Do I love owning it? Heck yeah!!!
Unless I'm reading this data sheet wrong, you won't get 100k lm from 20 of XHP70.2. The output just isn't there.
I had a flashlight very similar to that a few years ago, my coworkers nicknamed it "The Hand of God". I have moved on to a different job but I hear my old flashlight has become a legend. I remember illuminating the side of an entire apartment building like a spotlight.
4:42 feels like the flip was not the first one you did, ever dropped it? :D
I flip stuff all the time and am pretty good, can make a bottle do 3 or 4 flips and catch it back in the original position it started in. And I’m 24. I imagine he’s similar and has 30 years more experience of object-flipping than me haha.
As I'm sitting here watching this video I can't help but smile because I know exactly how he feels. I totally nerd out over stuff like that myself.
"at the google" I giggled
I love seeing Adam excited about things
I once mounted one of those 100 watt cob led under my quad copter and flew it during the night. It was a thing of beauty till I blinded myself and ran it into a building, but for a brief moment I was totally amazed at how bright it was in the sky.
No you didn’t.
I believe you
The Google Neuralizer. Agent J would be jealous.
I have a custom flashlight I built years ago that accidentally turned on while it was sitting on my TV (old fat TV), it burnt a hole through the case...
Also, like I'm glad other flashaholics have pointed out, things have evolved a lot since back then, 3000L is pretty pedestrian these days. You should get into this hobby, Adam :D
Bloody amazing flashlight ... FireSword! THANKS for the show and tell!
I wonder what that might do to plant growing!
4:22 Then I hope the power outage was not longer than 9 minutes.😂
Is this Adam brighter that a average city street light
It would be great if you could test the lumens coming out of it to quantify the claim. Also, I'm a bit skeptical that considering it has 9 hours of battery life that it would have been used during an extended blackout to provide lighting for an intersection
Nice!! The one time I also wished there was an Amazon shop link in the description lol. Thanks for your story Adam, I like it!
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I can imagine the effect of such a light. I used to have a pair of aircraft landing lights on my car. It was obvious to me when I first used them that such bright light was a bit dangerous if used irresponsibly. They were bright enough that they would light up the road half a mile like daylight and if you stood in front of one of them that your pant leg would start to smolder.
Dam that's brite wouldn't mind if I had 4 of them as security lights around my house
adam.. you know we need a night time preview of it now..
Awesome, I have one as well. It was given to a lot of us in the network and data center teams. It's fantastic and I keep it charged by my bed. It's built buy a guy in Oregon who retired.
Sounds like ElecktroLumens
Adam, I'd love a review if tge actual best economical energy efficient brightest torches. Im struggling to know what to buy.
'Never do this to a person' 3:20
*Blinds the entire internet in a millisecond*
Seeing that on a 1000nit monitor would probably blind you 😂
Gotta wonder how much cool stuff adam has that never got a public release. Then again I'm sure he plans to eventually show everything to us.
That was way more interesting than I thought it would be
This was everything I've ever needed, thank you Adam
I got a kitlist for my uni course that included a flashlight, and so a flashlight i bought. Got an Acebeam X80-GT which is basically the same in this structurally, though with an extra 4 LED's and in a more compact form.
For reference, according to specs the Firesword was 3000+ lumens, while the x80 is about 32,500. The fact that my torch wasn't even that expensive just shows how far technology has gone since when adam got this.
I love how excited he is about his tools! It makes for great content! Keep up the great work Adam!
Yeah I have the whole left wall of my garage that has a work bench with pegboard and a big roll top tool box that was given to me by my dads co workers after he passed. He maintained machinery at a manufacturer of breathing apparatus so there are all kinds of tools that have been repurposed to fix tools.
Sometimes my 20 month old boy goes out with me and we just rumage through and see what interesting doodads are in it.
So long story short, I also appreciate random tools and could tell a short story about some of mine too. Huh, I suppose I just did!
I really do feel like the "didnt go to college" version of Adam sometimes. I think thats why he is fascinating to me.
ALWAYS THE BEST SHOWS !!!!
Anyone have recommendations for commercially-sold flashlights similar to this?
I am a flashlight nerd and I've never heard of this! I would kill to get one!
I can’t figure out how to see pricing or buy it on the link
Are these still available anywhere for purchase??
So how much lumen does it deliver?
I own a firesword! Did they make you sign the waiver?
Cool cool stuff, ty Adam
Anyone know which light Adam’s been using currently? The small (maybe 123a sized) light with the red ring part way down the bezel?
It's an old nebo micro redline. Nothing special.
LoPan12 Indeed! Thanks LoPan. Just couldn’t figure it out and it was driving me crazy.
I collect custom EDC flashlights. It's crazy how bright lights have gotten in the last ten years. I have a small EDC pocket light that's puts out roughly 500 lumens more light than the firesword.
Adam, you made a video for a flashlight and you never took it into a dark room to illustrate it's brightness? 🤦♂️
Seriously wtf
With how bright this is, it may have been more prudent to take it to a sunlit driveway to demonstrate.
Finally. One of Adam's favorite things that I own. :-)
I was fortunate enough to have gotten one of these flashlights while I was an intern at Google.
I think the craziest thing about this entire story isn't how amazing the Firesword-V is (and it *is* amazing).
The crazy thing is that I believe this Google variant is NRTL listed.
From what I understand, one of the engineering organizations at Google discovered the Firesword-V and wanted to place a big order to give out as a holiday gift. However, Google being a major company, you can't just give everyone a (potentially hazardous) gift without following all of the rules.
That meant that, in order to give these out to Googlers, they had to be tested and listed by an NRTL.
I believe Google worked with the creator to go through the process of getting the Firesword-V listed, which actually involved some design changes. Anyone who has been through this sort of thing can tell you that NRTL listing is not cheap, and it's not something you usually do for a few thousand units.
There are brighter flashlights now, but to me this is really special because of all of the effort that went into making this possible.
Yeah that’s a fake story. You can give out spotlights.
I have a soft spot for Streamlight, their ProTac LED 1AAA is a part of my EDC for work, and I have an older PolyStinger that I rescued from one of my tech school instructors (he was going to throw it away because it didn’t work, but all it needed was a new lens and battery) for when I work on vehicles in my home garage.
So cool. I’m a geek for flashlights (flashaholic), and that is a great story. That fire sword from Google is a unicorn!
Adam you have to get the Olight X9R Marauder. It has 25,000 lumen capability. Would love to see you review it on the channel and see what you think.
That's getting serious. Olight is right behind acebeam and imalent for power, but I heard that the X9R marauder was actively cooled. Is that still a thing?
John theux yes it has active fans that cool the light when on the highest power
@@tengland84 What is the max continuous output?
For the acebeam X70 it's 6000 lumens without cooling and 15000 lumens with cooling.
For the imalent MS18 it's 25000 lumens with cooling.
John theux the X9R will put out 25,000 lumens continuous but only for a couple minutes. Once it starts over heating the lumens drop down
Was gonna say my Olight PL Pro is 1500 lumen, and my Warrior X Pro is 2250. Both are MUCH smaller than this thing. The X9R is a beast though. Maybe someday I'll grab it to have incase the sun doesn't come up.
Bright but there are some pretty incredible advancements in this space. There’s probably brighter but the Olight Marauder for example is 25000 lumens compared to the Fire Sword’s 3000.
That is awesome!
Wow 😳 even with recording on his iPhone it is still bright light can't imagine if I see in person how much brighter it is.
Not that much. It's like a 150W halogen bulb.
I have a flashlight with 60 000 lumens (acebeam x70), it's like a 3000W halogen lamp, while the most powerful flashlight is the imalent MS18 with 100 000 lumens (=5000W halogen)
3:28
"this thing is insanely bright"
Proceeds to point the business end right at his face.
👏 👏 👏
Just like the luke lightsaber meme haha
Firesword damn, so damn cool. As always a great video Sir.
wow! crazy flashlight
How many amp's is that thing running? Or have you already done the maths to find it's wattage
"I have a super bright flashlight!"
Cooooool, I want a super bright flashlight.
"It lasts nine minutes and requires it's own heat sink"
...maybe I'll get a maglite...
Go check out olight
It would have been nice to see it being used in the dark here Adam.
Nice seing the good image quality again! 🤗
Your Joy is infectious. I always crack up at how happy things like this make you. Keep on spreading your personal Joy plague we need it.
Nice build up :-)
Lumen test? That thing is a monster
Quite a few years ago I was a Flashaholic. We were flashlight enthusiasts who would own, build, and/or make flashlights because they were fun to have and use. Some of us were more concerned about raw output while some liked the quality of the light produced or how far it could throw, etc. I was never really into high power lights but I was asked to modify a few D call Maglites into some really bright lights for it’s time. My brightest was a 2000 lumen direct drive 3D Maglite with a 1lb copper heat sink that I was never able to reproduce on a second example. I still have the second high bin SST-90 LED that was bought at the same time as the 2000 lumen emitter. Maybe it’s time to build another one? Adam, you want to build a flashlight?
Oh so when you are a flashaholic its "wow nice flashlight" and "its so bright" but when im a flashaholic its "pull your pants up" and "there are children here"
Check out Emisar lights, the tech has advanced so so much in recent years.
Emisar is truly the king of budget enthusiast flashlights. I can hang the short version of the D4V2 on my keys and it still has more lumens than Adam's flashlight!
EMISAR is the daddy of all flashlights not just budget...
i have a emisar d4, like damn i forgot how bright it was. like hell. how can such a tiny flash light contain so much power.
@@BloodSprite-tan Emisar D4V2 destroys the D4.
Haja I was just commenting about my d4v2 before I saw this.
Somebody send him an Emisar D4V2, pls.
I'm impressed at how many comments are saying Adam needs an Emisar light / Hanklight.
And I'm blind. Of envy! You get the most wonderful toys
Anywhere to buy one?
Well...I own a flashlight that uses only ONE of those batteries you dropped into your Firesword and it is rated at 2000 lumens. It's also less than 6 inches long. Things have changed significantly in the flashlight world over the past few years. There are now plenty of lights that are as bright and several that exceed it in output, by several times. Crazy isn't it!?
I’ve been re-listening to all of the Still Untitled podcasts, from the beginning of time, and yesterday I heard you talk about this in the Cool Tools episode with Kevin Kelly....and then I get to see it today! Cool!
Great video! I discovered it while searching for information about my Firesword, which I received as a Google employee. I never use it, partly because I have kids and it's legit dangerous. There's a jumper inside it to switch between its two brightness settings. I tried the brighter setting ... once. In broad, sunny daylight, and the spot was visible on the sidewalk.
Oh man you have a skylight? thats awesome
I am obsessed with having good lights
imagine if he had used that for the beam bouncing myth. that would have been cool to watch or nah never mind in off in deathstar mode thats thing looks like so much fun thank you for sharing.
I've wanted one of these for years, they never seem to pop up though :(
I now own a server that's google branded and that's fairly cool, it's a Search Appliance T3 but I'd really love to have one of these.
The mining company I work for have been using NiteCore and other brands with 4000+ lumen output for a few years. Useful when doing inspections underground or as replacement for flashes in large stopes.
First comment from a coworker when seeing it: "It's a lightsaber".
A Fire Sword! that has made my day
The firesword is the perfect name for a flashlight this bright.
Adam. I've seen a 1kw LED light attached to a drone and I think someone made a 3kw LED light but I don't remember who. They are both one offs, so I think that flashlight might be one of the most powerful production flashlights ever.
I hope you would show this in a dark location or at night. To really show everyone it’s Power!
I have that flashlight! From the same place. It's dangerously powerful.
Love Adam Savage👍😎
Wow... that’s so amazing wow
If you want an awesome keychain flashlight you should really look at the RovyVon Aurora line of flashlights. I have no affiliation with them but I have one that I'm just thrilled with. I have just the base plastic A1 model, it's usb rechargeable, good tactile feel and peak output somewhere in the 500lumen range from a flashlight very nearly the size of a AA battery.
the led properly like you see in tv each got a network in one led
You should give that to the Torque Test Channel. They have started testing the lumen output of flashlights lately. Would make a great video for them!
That thing is lit.
What's it rated as????
I've heard about it years ago and totally forgot that this was a thing.
in my hand as I watch this video is a d4v2 with SFT40's pumping out around 10,000 lumens, granted only for a few moments before ramping but still
Adam filmed this one on his iPhone? I wonder if he has an improvised or consumer mount and lighting?
He went over his filming rig about a month ago. Short answer:yes!
Shocked how little Adam understands about flashlights.
Yeah, he's in my list of favorite human beings.
What the battery life duration?
My edc flashlight is a Wurkkos TD03 and i love it. I also have a wuben T1 that's insane
Adam, you have to build something from the Netflix series Dark,
So can you buy this?
Add a couple more o-rings and use it while night diving, and you wouldn't have overheating problem anymore. It'll be a short, 9 minutes dive though 😂
I’ll have to get one.